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   From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "James A. Donald"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:t5a7a49qp5lkj5adbqgbe79d9ac9amnivu@4ax.com...   
   >   
   > It required a lot of digging around to find how Finns   
   > were paid, leading me to inaccurately summarize the   
   > trade as "rubles", that is to say, something for   
   >   
   You are still wandering in darkness. You are barrmy.   
   >   
   > nothing.  I eventually discovered that Finns were paid   
   > not in oil and roundwood, but in promises to eventually   
   > deliver oil and roundwood of equivalent value in Finnish   
   > Marka.  Since these promises were decades late in being   
   > fulfilled, Finnish inflation usually greatly reduced   
   >   
   Promises? Decades late? Your problem is not ignorance on the Finno Soviet   
   trade but mental illness.   
      
   > the amount of oil and roundwood that the Soviets   
   > actually had to deliver - so businessmen were not in   
   > practice paid by the Soviets, but by the Finnish   
   > taxpayer.   
   >   
   Perhaps you consult an able shrink.   
   >   
   > The trade was in practice the Soviets demanding stuff   
   > from the Finnish government, and the Finnish taxpayer   
   > buying stuff from Finnish businessmen, which stuff was   
   > used to appease the Soviets.   
   >   
   It wasn't so at all. Consult an able shrink. You are very ill. Any American   
   economist anyhow familiar with macro economies can explain to the homosexual   
   the dynamics of this bilateral trade.   
      
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